NHM-WP07.102.007    Note:    1909?--1909?   Brown envelope annotated in ink in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand on one side "The Remedy for Unemployment | Criticisms &c." and on the other "The Remedy for Unemployment, containing documents WP7/102/1 and WP7/102/5 and 6 when listed.

NHM-WP06.010    Note:    1910?--1911   Papers re The World of Life: Papers re Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1910, "The World of Life; A Manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind and Ultimate Purpose", Chapman & Hall, Ltd., London, Dec. 1910, including letters, reviews, and papers re payment. Notes: See Smith S732 for details of subsequent editions and reprint 1916.

NHM-WP02.006    Note:    1913--1916   Papers re J Marchant’s "Letters and Memoirs": Papers c. 1913-1916 relating to the creation and publication by James Marchant of "A. R. Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences" (1916. Cassell & Co. Ltd., London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne) including draft texts, correspondence between Marchant and A. R. Wallace's children William and Violet Wallace and others; copies of letters written by A. R. Wallace; a Ms chronology of his life; reminiscences written by family, friends and colleagues and lists of his publications, library and correspondents. WP2/6/1 Papers re proposed biography of A. R. Wallace WP2/6/2 Chronology and outline of A. R. Wallace's life WP2/6/3 Reminiscences, letters, drafts and related papers WP2/6/4 Marchant Publisher's Papers WP2/6/5 Marchant Miscellanea

NHM-WP02.006.003    Note:    [1913--1916]   Originals and copies of reminiscences of A. R. Wallace by family, friends and colleagues, with related correspondence and papers including copies of some letters by him and a reprint in which Friula wallacii, a spider named after him, is described; most or all published or referred to in Marchant (1916).

NHM-WP02.006.005.02    Note:    [1913--1915]   Paper covers from subject files with titles in William Greenell Wallace's? hand and some annotations in his or another's hand, of letters from A. R. Wallace to his family covering dates 1897-1909. The classification and arrangement of letters by subject was probably by WGW on behalf of James Marchant, who includes extracts of many of these particular letters in Marchant, 1916. All of the letters, now incorporated into other series, have been annotated in an unknown hand, probably WGW's; passages relating to individual subjects marked in blue pencil and in many cases passages not relating to this subject marked in red and an annotated "omit". Titles below are preceded by the dates of the letters originally contained: 1879-1892 - "General & domestic" 1891-1896 - "Gardening" 1891-1908 - "Houses and Building" 1891.04.29 - "Humorous" 1895-1913 - "Examined not wanted" 1896? - "Excursions" 1902-1911- "Political &c" 1903-1907 - "Books and Writing" 1904.09.01 - "Socialism" 1908.11-1909.01 - "R I lecture /OM/ Medals" 1909.02.23 - "Curious event &c". Notes: Richard Wallace (personal info 12/6/03) considers the hand too untidy to be either his Father's or Grandfather's; however it is written in large letters and probably quickly; I consider it very similar to both. The writing is not Marchant's (See letter from him to WGW 7 Dec 1913, WP2/6/1/1). When listed these were included in a large modern (1995) envelope (destroyed) labelled in RW (And Mrs R Wallace's? ) hands "Typed letters A. R. Wallace to Violet and Will | Reminiscences of R B Rathbone | [Ditto] WG & VI for Marchants Book".

NHM-WP16    Note:    1913--1951   Wallace, W G and V I, papers 1913-1951: Lists of A. R. Wallace's publications, library and letters and correspondence between various individuals, scientific societies, museums and publishers and A. R. Wallace's children William and Violet, regarding his death, the disposal of his effects and reproduction and copyright in his publications. Approximately 110 letters and some related papers. WP16/1: 1913-1950 Correspondence with publishers and others - WP16/2: 1915-1951 Correspondence re gifts of A. R. Wallace's effects - WP16/3: 1913?-1914 Papers re sale of A. R. Wallace's Library - WP16/4: 1949-1950 Papers re sale of A. R. Wallace's Bird of Paradise skins - WP16/5: 1913?-1914? Lists created by WGW of A. R. Wallace publications.

NHM-WP18.026    Note:    [1913]--[1951]   Label: "A .R.W. 90th | Birthday | Congratulations" in pencil in WGW's? hand on a small sheet of cream paper approximately 11 cm x 9 cm. Notes: Among letters to A. R. Wallace, mostly on his 90th birthday (1913) when listed. Dates based on periods when WGW might have been sorting A. R. Wallace's papers.

NHM-WP16.003.002    Note:    1913?--1914?   "Dr A .R.Wallace's Library. List of the principal books"; ten numbered folios TS and CC in columns headed Title, Author, Notes and Inscriptions; first page TS, pages 2-10 CC; number of volumes if more than one added in the left margin in pencil in WGW's? hand. See letter from T H Richis? (WP16/3/1) re purchase of library. Notes: When listed were included in a 1998 envelope (destroyed) with some apparently unrelated miscellanea including proofs of "Is Mars Habitable"; post-it note label in Richard Wallace's hand included "Lists compiled by WGW". A TS of page 3, probably the top copy of the CC p 3 here, was found at another location (See WP16/3/3)

NHM-WP02.006.002.01    Note:    [1914]   Ms table in ink in William Greenell Wallace's? hand headed "Outline of A R Wallace's Life" with "Outline of " corrected, possibly in another hand, to "Table of Events in": listing key events by date and season up to 1909; undated; numerous corrections and deletions; annotation (crossed through) at top left :" To precede 1st chapter". 5 numbered folios approx. 33 cm x 20.5 cm with brass paper clip.

NHM-WP02.006.002.03    Note:    [1914--1915]   Rough undated notes in ink in an unknown hand re A. R. Wallace's experiences in the Malay Archipelago, beginning "1854 went to the Malay Archipelago - a part of the world quite unknown then - and full of the most wonderful birds and insects." 2 pp. on 2 ff.

NHM-WP16.005.[02]    Note:    [1914]   TS and Ms lists and notes apparently compiled by William Greenell Wallace comprising: 2. "List of Works by A. R. Wallace | Books", 3 folios TS including top sheet signed in pencil "W G Wallace" and annotated in his hand "Please return to WGW"; listing books by A. R. Wallace 1853-1907, with works 1908 to 1913 added by hand and crossed through in blue pencil. Notes: When listed all except list of letters in "Nature" were in a 1998 envelope (destroyed) with some apparently unrelated miscellanea including proofs of "Is Mars Habitable"; post-it note label in Richard Wallace's hand included "Lists compiled by WGW"; list of letters etc in Nature, was in envelope addressed to Mrs A R Wallace, loose in original box 3. See also WP2/6, papers re James Marchant's "Letters and Memoirs . . .", for which these lists may have been compiled.

NHM-WP16.005.[04]    Note:    [1914]   TS and Ms lists and notes apparently compiled by William Greenell Wallace comprising: 4. Note headed "Spare copies" listing some A. R. Wallace works, number of copies and shelf location; front page of TS signed W G Wallace. Notes: When listed all except list of letters in "Nature" were in a 1998 envelope (destroyed) with some apparently unrelated miscellanea including proofs of "Is Mars Habitable"; post-it note label in Richard Wallace's hand included "Lists compiled by WGW"; list of letters etc in Nature, was in envelope addressed to Mrs A R Wallace, loose in original box 3. See also WP2/6, papers re James Marchant's "Letters and Memoirs . . .", for which these lists may have been compiled.

NHM-WP16.005.[06]    Note:    [1914]   TS and Ms lists and notes apparently compiled by William Greenell Wallace comprising: 6. "Letters Etc. by Dr A.R. Wallace in 'Nature", 7 numbered folios TS plus covering page annotated in WGW's hand "W G Wallace | Please return to WGW" Notes: When listed all except list of letters in "Nature" were in a 1998 envelope (destroyed) with some apparently unrelated miscellanea including proofs of "Is Mars Habitable"; post-it note label in Richard Wallace's hand included "Lists compiled by WGW"; list of letters etc in Nature, was in envelope addressed to Mrs A R Wallace, loose in original box 3. See also WP2/6, papers re James Marchant's "Letters and Memoirs . . .", for which these lists may have been compiled.

NHM-WP16.005.[08]    Note:    [1914]   TS and Ms lists and notes apparently compiled by William Greenell Wallace comprising: 8. Stamped envelope addressed to Mrs A R Wallace at Old Orchard, from T D A Cockerell, Boulder California, postmark illegible; annotated on the bottom in an unknown hand in pencil "Letters by Dr Wallace in 'Nature"'. Notes: When listed all except list of letters in "Nature" were in a 1998 envelope (destroyed) with some apparently unrelated miscellanea including proofs of "Is Mars Habitable"; post-it note label in Richard Wallace's hand included "Lists compiled by WGW"; list of letters etc in Nature, was in envelope addressed to Mrs A R Wallace, loose in original box 3. See also WP2/6, papers re James Marchant's "Letters and Memoirs . . .", for which these lists may have been compiled.

NHM-WP02.006.004    Note:    [1915--1916]   Papers of Cassell & Co. Ltd, publishers, re the publication and sale of James Marchant, "A. R. Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences" (1916. Cassell & Co. Ltd., London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne)

NHM-WP16.004    Note:    1949--1950   Papers 1949-1950 re the sale of skins of Birds of Paradise collected by A. R. Wallace, including correspondence between William Greenell Wallace and the BMNH, the University Museum Oxford, and the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge. Place: New Guinea

NHM-WP18.027    Note:    [1970]--[1980]   Label in red biro " Letters on the occassion [sic] of A. R. Wallace's 90th Birthday", probably in Mrs Richard Wallace's hand. Notes: Found when listed in a yellow paper folder labelled in the same? hand "Xerox these" containing a variety of apparently unrelated letters, lists and notes now relocated to appropriate series. For comparison see postcard WP4/4/9 in Mrs Richard Wallace's hand.

NHM-WP01.003.001    Note:    undated   3 folios, date unknown, written on one side only, giving A. R. Wallace's whereabouts at various dates and listing 58 letters by author, correspondent and date. Notes: List in date order except for the last entry, no 58, which is 1858. There is a loose note c. 2001? (destroyed): "Missing no 18". No 18 is listed as "A. R. Wallace to G Silk, June 1848." The following loose notes above the list in an unknown hand have been destroyed: 1. "This has Bates Ternate 1858 letter" annotated in another hand "Xerox" and 2. "Letter to Bates Amboyna Jan 4 1858 | postscript Ternate Jan 25, 1858 | Also separate sheet with insects of the Eastern Archipelago collected by A R Wallace from May 1 1854 to Jan 1, 1858". See note to WP6/5/4 ( Proofs of A. R. Wallace's "Darwinism, an exposition….") re Xerox process and speculative dates.

NHM-WP01.003.066    Note:    undated   BLANK RECORD: Item transferred to more appropriate series

NHM-WP01.003.068    Note:    undated   BLANK RECORD: Item transferred to more appropriate series

NHM-WP01.003.071    Note:    undated   BLANK RECORD: Piece transferred to more appropriate series

NHM-WP04.004.010    Note:    undated   Inner wrapping around bundled letters as delivered for listing; part of a torn sheet with "A. R. Wallace's letters from U.S.A. to his family 1886-1887" written in pencil in WGW's? hand on one side, and part of the first page of cyclostyled or carbon-copied notes apparently from a local council meeting concerning district council duties in relation to public rights of way and roadside verges, quoting a local Government act of 1894 . Place: England Notes: Notes may be from a Broadstone or Wimborne council meeting between 1901and 1907, when A. R. Wallace's letters frequently refer to roadbuilding around his house; annotation probably in WGW's hand written for James Marchant; see Biographical material/papers re James Marchant, WP2/6

NHM-WP07.114    Note:    undated   Label, "Mss & Proofs of articles &c. by A.R.W." in A. R. Wallace's? WGW's? hand in ink on a sheet of letter paper; "Mss" has been deleted in pencil and a pencilled tick added below the text. Notes: Found loose in original box 3 of the papers when listed.

NHM-WP07.116.[02]    Note:    undated   Brown envelope cut in half, addressed to A. R. Wallace, postmarked on back Wimborne with illegible date, annotated in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand "Mss. on Dimensions of Space. | Rests on verbal quibbles with no actual or possible facts to support the supposed possibility" written over the following in pencil, also in A. R. Wallace's hand? "Dimensions of Space - A.R.W. | Physical Phenomena O. Lodge"; labelled "A1" in pencil in A. R. Wallace's or another's hand; containing the above when listed. Notes: The annotated envelope containing the mss was in an envelope of unrelated miscellanea including accounts of expenditure Old Orchard, when listed. P J L 10/6/03.

NHM-WP12.038    Note:    undated   "The Waste of Beauty | Written after reading "… Malay Archipelago", undated poem signed J W Gough, Ms in ink on 1 folded folio (3 pp) of lined paper, annotated in ink in A. R. Wallace's hand on the title page "Ideas and sentiments good - | verse but so-so | A.R.W." over "Not bad on the whole" in pencil in his? or WGW's? hand. Notes: A. R. Wallace's "Malay Archipelago" was first published in 1869 but frequently reprinted; the date of the poem could be anywhere between 1869 and A. R. Wallace's year of death, 1913.

NHM-WP14.001.007    Note:    undated   Extract from the diary of John Evelyn for 27 Jan 1689 from an unnamed newspaper; undated; on the subject of an infant prodigy, the son of Dr. Clench, annotated in A. R. Wallace's hand in ink "Probably equalled by J.S. Mill at same age." Notes: In a envelope addressed to Richard Wallace, postmarked 1996, labelled "Newspaper cuttings | Various" comprising press cuttings, corrected proofs, book reviews and other papers, when listed.

NHM-Ms_140a-e    Note:    undated   Miscellaneous correspondence, sketches etc. (various dates) boxed

NHM-WP17.015    Note:    undated   Route map of the British Islands, approximately 24 cm x 18 cm on one sheet of paper approximately 23 cm x 29 cm. Printed by Bean & Sons, Leeds. Undated. Black and white outline, with areas hand-coloured in pink (by A. R. Wallace?). Directional arrows and border of coloured area pencilled in and annotations in pencil including "Direction of ice movement" in A. R. Wallace's hand. Notes: In envelope labelled "Photos &c for Studies" (i.e. "Studies Scientific and Social") when listed. The image is not reproduced there though it may be related to two articles "The Ice Age and it's Work..." first published in "Fortnightly Review" in November and December 1893, reprinted in "Studies..."

NHM-WP18.003.[1]    Note:    undated   Envelope annotated in an unknown hand in ink " File | Special letter from late Mr Sims | not to be acknowledged"

NHM-WP18.010    Note:    undated   Otherwise blank sheet apparently from a journal annotated/labelled in A. R. Wallace's hand "Extracts &c America"

NHM-WP18.028    Note:    undated   Brown cardboard box approximately 25.5 cm x 18 cm x 5.5 cm, in the form of a book, titled "Letters" on spine, with marbling on 3 edges. Labelled inside lid "No. 1 large 8vo Stone's Patent Box for the safe & Orderly Keeping of all Letters, Papers and Documents . . ." . The label is partly covered by a modern Post-It note with a rough and incomplete list in Richard Wallace's hand (c. 2000?) of some of the letters which it contained when delivered to the Museum. The contents have now been transferred to a number of more appropriate series.

LINSOC-MS140a    Note:    undated   Miscellanea, part 1

LINSOC-MS140c    Note:    undated   Miscellanea, part 3

LINSOC-MS140e    Note:    undated   Miscellanea, part 5